Day: October 28, 2006

The other day at work we had a staff appreciation luncheon. Besides the free food, everyone who attended received a $10 gift card (from Old Navy, Amazon, or Starbucks), and a little note of thanks for all our hard work over the past year. The note began with “Dear so-and-so…” and one of my co-workers pointed out that the company had used a semi-colon after this salutation, rather than a colon or the more friendly comma. You really know you work in publishing when you start proofreading even your thank-you notes.

I bring this up now because, on some of the posts below, there’s a “1 Comments” link at the end. There’s a tiny part of my brain going a little crazy over this. It really should be “1 Comment,” singular. I’ve yet to determine if this is fix-able in Blogger, but I suspect that most sane people wouldn’t even notice.

Of course, the easiest solution to this is for more people to respond more often to my posts, thereby eliminating all those “1 Comments” mistakes altogether. I’m just saying.

So I sent out the remaining issues of Kaleidotrope to contributors and a handful of reviewers this morning. All copies should arrive within the next week (or two, if you’re outside the continental United States), and again I want to extend my thanks and appreciation to those of you who helped make the first issue possible.

Now is as good a time as any to remind you that I’m still accepting submissions for the April 2007 issue. I’m especially in need of good fiction and nonfiction at the moment. I’ll accept flash pieces — and gladly if they’re good — but lengthier would be better at the moment, I think. I’m always happy to answer any questions you might have about my submission guidelines.